By justina colmena ~biz in war —

That Old World charm was just a fraction of a hair too deceptive

A certain culture or way of life was sold to Italian–Americans hoping to reconnect with their distant past. But that culture or way of life didn't exist anymore because it had been overtaken by Mafia. Nothing decent was left of it.

Germany and Italy Declare War on the United States | Military History and Science | Research Starters | EBSCO Research
<p>On December 11, 1941, Germany and Italy formally declared war on the United States, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor just days earlier. This declaration was influenced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt&#039;s stance against the Axis powers and escalating U.S. actions perceived as hostile. Historically, the U.S. maintained a strong isolationist policy, and entry into a European conflict seemed unlikely until the events of the late 1930s and early 1940s heightened awareness of the threats posed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Tensions grew as Roosevelt&#039;s administration gradually shifted towards supporting Allied nations, ultimately leading to a state of undeclared naval conflict between the U.S. and Germany prior to the war declarations. The decision by Hitler and Mussolini to declare war is widely considered a strategic miscalculation that opened the door for U.S. involvement in World War II, significantly impacting the course of the conflict and establishing the U.S. as a dominant global power in the postwar period.</p>
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They moved to Italy to claim their citizenship. Then they were told they were no longer citizens | CNN
Italy’s new law restricting citizenship by descent has disappointed millions of the diaspora but has upended the lives of descendants who’d moved to Italy to start new lives.
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No. That isn't going to work. We have to deal with our problems back home. Those people who have making our lives so difficult in America are even more advanced in their party pranks, practical jokes and dirty tricks to ruin our lives in Europe than they are in America.

They don't love Americans over there, and they especially resent our freedom and our insistence on the due process of law and the security of rights.

We need to punish our adversaries in America, those unjust stewards and mobsters who are in control of our police stations and courthouses. We need to make them face the wrath of the people and hold them accountable for the wrong which they have done to us.

Once we have punished our domestic enemies in the courthouses, hospitals and police stations and taken our country back from them, and their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution, and we have made America great again, we will be able to go on the offensive to answer that great and high call of supreme duty to defend her from her foreign enemies who are amassing abroad.

Then once again we will be able to welcome those that are truly our friends from abroad into our great and beautiful country.

U.S. Senate: Declaration of War with Italy, WWII (S.J.Res. 120)